Somerset House And Attached Railings

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON PLACE 1208-1/1/107 (West side) 25/03/70 No.14 Somerset House and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.11 WARWICK STREET. House, now offices and attached railings. 1836-1837 with late-C20 alterations and restoration. By William Startin. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Stepped plinth surmounted by full-height pilasters with anthemion decoration to cornice. Frieze with egg-and-dart moulding, cornice, blocking course. First floor has 12/12 sashes with eared architraves. Second floor has 12/12 sashes with anthemion horns. Ground floor: steps to central entrance an 8-panel door with sidelights and slender pilasters, modillion cornice and overlight with glazing bars. Distyle Adamesque porch with frieze with laurel wreaths, cornice, blocking course. Tall 6/9 sashes in architraves with acanthus decoration. Left return has similar fenestration. INTERIOR: moulded cornices to some ground-floor rooms. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as left-hand block of proposed Arbenie Cresent. Part of rear burnt down during early C20. Clarendon Place was laid out in 1825. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39, 58).

Listing NGR: SP3144666080